Exhibit 1(f)


                            KIMCO REALTY CORPORATION
                            (a Maryland corporation)

                                  Common Stock

                                TERMS AGREEMENT
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                                             Dated: December 11, 2001


To:      Kimco Realty Corporation
         3333 New Hyde Park Road
         New Hyde Park, New York 11042-0020

Attention:  Chairman of the Board of Directors

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We understand that Kimco Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation
(the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell 1,000,000 shares of its common
stock, $.01 par value per share (the "Underwritten Securities"). Subject to the
terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference herein, Salomon
Smith Barney Inc. (the "Underwriter") offers to purchase 1,000,000 Initial
Underwritten Securities (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement referred to
below), at the purchase price set forth below.




The Underwritten Securities shall have the following terms:

Title of Securities:

         Common Stock, $.01 par value per share

Number of Shares:

         1,000,000 (plus an additional 500,000 shares of Common Stock to be
         delivered on December 21, 2001).(1)

Public offering price per share:

         $50.36

Purchase price per share:

         $47.78(2)

Number of Option Securities, if any, that may be purchased by the Underwriters:

         None

Delayed Delivery Contracts:

         Not authorized

Closing date and location:

         December 17, 2001(3)
         Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
         875 Third Avenue
         New York, New York  10022

         All of the provisions contained in the Underwriting Agreement attached
as Annex A hereto are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety herein
and shall be deemed to be a part of this Terms Agreement to the same extent as
if such provisions had been set forth in full herein. Terms defined in such
document are used herein as therein defined.


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(1)      Reference is hereby made to the Company's three-for-two split of its
         Common Stock, payable on December 21, 2001 to shareholders of record on
         December 10, 2001. For each share of common stock purchased hereby, the
         purchaser will receive .5 shares of common stock after the close of
         business on December 21, 2001, unless the purchaser sells these shares
         prior to the close of business on December 21, 2001. Subsequent
         transferees of shares of common stock offered hereby who purchase these
         shares prior to the close of business on December 21, 2001, will
         receive .5 shares of common stock for each share of common stock
         transferred to them.

(2)      For an aggregate purchase price of $47,780,000, representing payment in
         full for the account of the Underwriter of the purchase price for
         1,000,000 shares of Common Stock.

(3)      The Company acknowledges its obligation to deliver an additional
         500,000 shares of Common Stock after the close of business on
         December 21, 2001 in connection with its three-for-two split of its
         Common Stock.


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         In addition to the representations and warranties of the Company
contained in Section 1 of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company represents and
warrants to you that the 500,000 shares of Common Stock issuable on December 21,
2001 in connection with the Company's three-for-two split of its Common Stock,
will have been duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance by all
necessary corporate action and such shares, when issued, will be duly and
validly issued and will be fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of
such shares will not be subject to preemptive or other similar rights; and such
shares conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the
Prospectus.

         In addition to the covenants of the Company contained in Section 4 of
the Underwriting Agreement, the Company covenants with you that it will reserve
and keep available through December 24, 2001, free of preemptive or other
similar rights, 500,000 shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the
Company to satisfy its obligation to deliver 500,000 shares of Common Stock as
of the close of business on December 21, 2001 in connection with its
three-for-two split of its Common Stock.

         In addition to the opinions of Latham & Watkins and Ballard Spahr
Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP delivered pursuant to Section 6 of the Underwriting
Agreement, such counsel shall also deliver an opinion to the effect that the
500,000 shares of Common Stock to be delivered on December 21, 2001 in
connection with the Company's three-for-two split of its Common Stock have been
duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance by all necessary corporate
action on the part of the Company and such shares, when issued in accordance
with the charter of the Company will be duly and validly issued and will be
fully paid and non-assessable and the issuance of such shares will not be
subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising by operation of law or, to
the best of such counsel's knowledge, otherwise.












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         Please accept this offer no later than 7:00 P.M. (New York City time)
on December 11, 2001 by signing a copy of this Terms Agreement in the space set
forth below and returning the signed copy to us.

                                             Very truly yours,

                                             SALOMON SMITH BARNEY INC.

                                             By:   /s/ DOUG SESLER
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                                                Name:  Doug Sesler
                                                Title: Managing Director


Accepted:

KIMCO REALTY CORPORATION

By:  /s/  GLENN COHEN
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   Name:  Glenn Cohen
   Title: Treasurer


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